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“It’s been a truly collaborative project where I feel both partners learnt a lot from each other,” Bahnsen tells Vogue Business on Zoom, the day she arrives in Paris ahead of the show, which takes place on 25 September. “In the high-performance scene and with their technicality, [The North Face] are truly nerds within their field, which we are as well.”The collaboration — which has been in the works for a year and a half — echoes this season’s trend of pairing cocktail dresses with technical outerwear on the runway, as seen in London and Milan. It also channels fashion’s move…

Ludovic de Saint Sernin will be the eighth guest designer for Jean Paul Gaultier. He is also the youngest. At the time he was born, in 1990, fashion’s original enfant terrible, then around 38-years-old, had presented his luscious Adam and Eve, Rastas Aujourd’hui (Rastas today) collection, which featured giddy male and female models walking as couples; the likes of Helena Christensen and Rossy de Palma in colourful suits, floral corsetry and dance-club ensembles. True to form, there was humour, performance and innuendo on a level we rarely see today.Yet de Saint Sernin, who launched his label in 2017 and took…

Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.Visiting Avavav’s temporary Milan studio, two days out from the brand’s Spring/Summer 2025 show, I was surprised to see a model sprinting back and forth across the room. He was wearing an oversized blazer with the Adidas three stripes, layered with tailored Adidas track pants and Avavav’s signature claw shoes. “We need to make sure they can run in the baggy pieces,” said creative director Beate Karlsson, looking on, “so they don’t get caught [on anything] in the show”.Acielle @StyleDuMondeTaking place on the…

Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.What happened?It’s game on for Off-White. The Milan-based brand has seized the WNBA’s newfound fashion star, cementing its own US play with a New York Liberty partnership.Off-White and New York Liberty are embarking on a multi-year deal under which Off-White will serve as the team’s “official style and culture curator”, the brands announced Friday. It’s Off-White’s first ever US sports team partnership. (The brand is now in the third year of its partnership with football team AC Milan, under which it’s created uniforms…

Day one will commence with Weinsanto, one of the younger brands that stole the limelight this summer during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, alongside Maitrepierre and Germanier, which are each showing on Tuesday.Julie Gilhart, previously long-time fashion director at Barneys who recently relaunched her consultancy Gilhart & Co, is looking forward to Alainpaul, who’s showing for the first time as part of the official fashion week calendar. The Hong Kong-born designer, who studied to be a contemporary ballet dancer before joining Vetements and Louis Vuitton in Virgil Abloh’s design studio, finally formed his namesake label in 2023. “He…

Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.Caroline Rush will step down as CEO of the British Fashion Council (BFC) in June 2025 after 16 years in the role, the organisation announced on Thursday. The search for her replacement begins now.Rush joined the BFC — which is behind London Fashion Week (LFW), the annual Fashion Awards and the highly respected Newgen talent programme, among many other initiatives — in 2009 and has led it through significant change. Its revenue has more than doubled in that time, the BFC said.Her relationship…

In tennis, Boss sponsors high-ranking players Matteo Berrettini and Taylor Fritz. In 2022, the brand launched a tennis capsule collection with Berrettini, including polos, hoodies and accessories, rereleased each year since, in line with tennis season — which has been a “great success”, per the brand.“We choose our ambassadors carefully. It is important that they match the messages of our brands, and that they have a high level of relevance and credibility in our target groups,” says Grieder. “Many of our brand ambassadors are athletes. They go the extra mile, are likeable and have the right mindset. Formula One driver…

This article is part of our Vogue Business Membership package. To enjoy unlimited access to Member-only reporting and insights, our NFT Tracker, Beauty Trend Tracker and TikTok Trend Tracker, weekly Technology, Beauty and Sustainability Edits and exclusive event invitations, sign up for Membership here.This season, London Fashion Week looked to the past, while building foundations for the future.As part of the event’s 40th-anniversary celebrations, the British Fashion Council (BFC) asked Vogue chief critic and BFC ambassador for emerging talent Sarah Mower, and renowned photographer and creative director Robin Derrick to curate a retrospective. The exhibition, which snaked around the walls…

Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.Although Estonia-born, London-based designer Johanna Parv had worked with leather before, she never thought the material could be used to create stretchy, breathable and protective (reflective) leather for urban cyclists. However, earlier this year while attending a workshop at Ecco’s Netherlands-based tannery, the creative was able to unlock this innovative new design. On Monday, the jackets will appear in her debut solo show at London Fashion Week.“Often, the majority of brands do not own their manufacturing. As a result, they do not have…

Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.Self-Portrait has launched a new residency programme, and has tapped Christopher Kane as its first guest.Through the programme, Self-Portrait will open the doors to its London studio and headquarters, where it has created a new design hub for artists from a variety of disciplines. The idea is to provide innovative creatives with the resources, infrastructure, platforms, manpower and distribution networks to realise their design vision. Kane’s residency is a one-off engagement, but the collection will roll out across retailers from the end of…